Living in the State of ‘I’m Offended’
Barbara Henderson
Like many people I have spent my life
avoiding people who are easily offended.
They want an apology when you do call them because they didn’t feel like
talking and you should have known that before you called. They want an apology when you don’t call because
they needed someone to talk to and a real friend would have known that and called
them. And blah, blah, blah. The nicest thing you can say is this type of
high maintenance friend is that you don’t have time for the drama anymore and
just please leave me alone. No one has
the time or patience to deal with people like this. If they are family it gets a little harder to
avoid them, but the constant drama involved with trying to have a real
relationship with anyone like this, even family, proves far too expensive.
These high maintenance people are the
demanding ones at work. They demand that
the coffee machine be put in a different spot, and that everyone takes their
turn cleaning the break room even though everyone does not use the break
room. These are the silly little twits
that love to micromanage every aspect of your life, but do not want any
intervention in their life.
The difference in these ‘offended’
people and normal people is that their entire life revolves around how they
feel about every single thing. Then
because they have certain ‘feelings’, the entire world is supposed to get on
their band wagon and make sure their feeling are never hurt. It is hateful to tell them no. It is hateful to the point of being a death
offence if someone has the gall to tell them, ’No!’. In today’s world if you tell the wrong sort
of person no, then you better be prepared to be called a hater and a
bigot. And there are greedy little pigs
called lawyers who are willing to help the offended get money because their
feelings tell them they deserve it.
Also, people like this are incredibly hateful spiteful people. They aren’t happy with anything less than
total destruction of the lives of those who offend them. Currently the lesbian women who sued the Oregon
couple for refusing to bake them a cake should be utterly ashamed of
themselves. They have just shown the
entire world what spoiled greed brats they actually are. However the courts should be even more
ashamed for not dismissing their case as frivolous, and even more ashamed for
actually awarding them money. The women
make their case in the most ridiculous ways possible. ‘Laurel Bowman-Cryer, who is now “married” to
Rachel, sent a complaint to the state, saying that Klein “proceeded to say we
were abominations unto the lord” (sic). “This is absolutely unacceptable.”
In a subsequent report, the lesbian
couple claimed the incident left them feeling “mentally raped.”
They claimed to suffer from 88
separate symptoms of mental anguish – including “surprise,” being “stunned,”
experiencing a “dislike of going to work,” and that one or both of them had
resumed smoking.’
I can tell you flatly that I am
suffering from many of these same symptoms since learning of this case. I am definitely offended. I am stunned by their actions against a God
fearing family business! I have suffered
mental anguish because of their hateful spiteful actions. I am stunned that government is supporting
them in his matter. I have never smoked
– but I thought about it after hearing about these two horrible women. Now, all I need is a brave lawyer to take
them on.
Furthermore, the lesbian community has
yet to denounce these two spoiled brats.
Seriously, does this mean the entire lesbian community concurs with
these two? Is this what straight people
can expect from these bullies? Is the
lesbian community saying,
‘Either you act like I am normal and
you approve of me, or I will sue you to ruin.
On the other hand, I have no obligation what so ever to act like a
decent human being, or even like a grown up!
If you don’t give us lesbians our way we will sue you!’? Seriously, no business wants to work with any
person or a group that sits around looking for reasons to be offended so they
can sue someone.
Recently I was in an accident in a
store parking lot. While walking to my
car pushing a shopping buggy, someone whizzed past me and hit my arm with the
mirror of her car. It twirled me around
and almost knocked me down. It
hurt. I was scared. My husband almost passed out he was so
upset. The driver of the car called 911,
but by the time they got there she was so upset she was almost fainting. I had to wait in line to get my arm looked
at. I sincerely thank the Lord that I am
fine. So is the car driver and my
husband. I have been contacted by
lawyers wanting to know if I need a good lawyer to make sure I get what is due
to me under these trying circumstances.
Can you believe that? I could sue
the woman for at least mental anguish. I
could sue the EMT responders because they were more concerned with the driver
and my husband with me. After all, I was
supposed to be the center of attention there.
On the other hand I could just chalk it up to living in a busy
world. I will always suppose that my
guardian angels were working overtime that day or I could have been in
emergency surgery having my arm re-attached.
The point is, there was absolutely no reason there to sue anyone. If being upset is a reason to sue then every
single person on this planet has a reason to sue someone at least once a month.
We are living in the State of
Offended. Some sort of creeping evil has
grown over the land of the free like a fungus.
It is made up of greedy selfish people who put themselves in the role of
God. They pretend they have the right to
re-define right and wrong according to how they feel at the moment. They look for reasons to be offended. Then they look for money to make them feel
better.
The worst thing going on now in the
Land of the Offended is that those demanding acceptance refuse to give it. They have no real reason to be accepted other
than they feel like they should be accepted.
So, when a conflict arises between professional Offendeds and everyday
people, the Offendeds have no recourse but to call people names. There is no rational argument that would sway
people to their feel good belief system.
If they can’t turn the rest of the world to their side with feelings,
then they have no recourse but to vilify anyone and everyone who stands in
their way. They have over used words
like homophobic, bigot, racist, and Islam-phobic to the point that the only
real meaning is ‘you don’t agree with me – so I am justified in hating
you’. Remember this. Never has a rational decision been made based
on fears and worst case scenarios or feelings.
To have a good outcome in any situation the first part of the decision
must be made based on facts. When the
facts are verified as true and right, then a decision can be made based on
feelings. For instance the ‘should I
take this job’ question can be answered like this. The first questions that must be asked are,
‘is it legal?, ‘is it moral?’, ‘will I be required to do anything that
seriously makes me uncomfortable?’, ‘how
will this affect my family?’, ‘will this job meet my financial requirements?’,
and things like that. Once those
questions are answered then it is time to decide how the applicant feels about
the matter. Reason and moral boundaries
come before feelings.
In this ‘land of the Offended’ it
turns out that I am personally offended by many things. I am currently working on how to make a
living as a professional ‘Offended’, but it seems to be blocked by my
commitment to right and wrong. For
believing thinking Christians to sue the Offendeds would be taking advantage of
the simple minded and delusional. I
don’t think that is the way Jesus would have handled the situation. Jesus stood on the solid rock of God’s word. He never appeased the political and social
powers of the day. He told the truth. He
told the truth boldly and without apology.
Jesus loved people enough to tell them the truth regardless of how it
was going to affect Him. Always remember
that Jesus knew the end from the beginning.
He was not taken by surprise by His crucifixion.
Today Christianity is an offense to
half the world. Even many professing
Christians are not happy with all the teachings of the Bible. They like to pick the things that seem good
to them and ignore the rest of the Bible.
Under the circumstances it seems a
good time to review the fundamentals of the faith:
·
The
Bible is without error as it was written.
There are copies of the books dating from antiquity that show it has not
been changed.
·
Jesus
existed before His incarnation.
·
Jesus
is God.
·
Jesus
is one member of the Trinity which includes God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit. (Jesus is NOT a
brother to Lucifer as a major cult claims)
·
Jesus
was born of a virgin.
·
Jesus
was/is fully God and fully man
·
Jesus
was crucified to death.
·
Jesus
rose on the third day.
·
Jesus
made one way into heaven through Him.
This way is sufficient for everyone.
Everyone gets a first class invitation to enter through the front gate,
be adopted by God, and be a joint heir with Jesus. There is no reason for a second way into
heaven.
·
Jesus
ascended to Heaven.
·
Jesus
is coming back when He gets good and ready.
As Christians we are to live by the instructions and examples God has given us in the Bible.
Matthew
24 is a very interesting chapter in light of what is going on in the world
today. Verse 10 says, ‘And
then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one
another.’
The
word ‘offended’ seems so appropriate in describing today’s world. Never in history that I know of has a society
believed they had the right to never be offended. That very thought is offensive at its
worst. The fear of offending someone who
might sue you is an attack on freedom of speech. Free speech is speech without fear of legal
action. Now, free speech is lumped with hate
speech; it is considered a crime. Hate
speech seems to be speech that doesn’t agree with what is politically correct
at the moment. The idea that a Christian
can be charged with hate speech for simply telling the truth according to Jesus
Christ is terrifying.
Jesus
Christ lived with the knowledge that telling the truth was going to get Him
into trouble. He offended the religious
self-righteous. He offended the
government. He offended the lost who
refused the offer of salvation He gave them.
Jesus did all this out of love.
His intention was not to offend.
He knew some would find His message offensive, but He told the truth
anyway. That is where we are today. It is the duty of Christians to tell the
truth. It will definitely offend those
who are offended by everything that contradicts their personal ideology. It will offend the narrow minded who refuse
to listen to the truth. It will offend
those who love this world more than anything else. It will offend those who take no thought for
the world of eternal life or eternal death that is coming to us all. But there will always be some who are not
offended. There will always be some who will turn to Jesus Christ and be
saved.
Christians
living in the ‘Land of the Offended’ are to follow the instructions in Galatians
6:9 which says, ‘And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’ It is wearisome that the world seems to think
it is fine for them to offend Christians, but that they personally have a right
to never be offended. Our duty is to
continue in doing what Christ names as good.
There is a reward coming when God gets ready to give rewards. One reward
that can come in this lifetime is to see a lost soul come to a saving knowledge
of Jesus Christ.
I wrote an article a while
back on getting your life out of a rut.
In the article I say that you are out of a rut immediately when you
begin to take God seriously throughout the day.
This changes your attitude and your outlook. Pleasing God becomes the priority for you
daily actions. Life improves
immediately. Today we do need to put
pleasing God first. Offending others
because of our stand for Christ may be a byproduct of actions that are right
and good. That doesn’t change our duty
to do and say what is right according to Christ. Unfortunately, many of those who are offended
by the teachings of Christ will wind up permanently damned because of their
failure to repent and turn from sin. Christians, God will strengthen us to continue
speaking the truth regardless of what offending the professionally offended may
cost us. It will be worth it to see the
lost saved.
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